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. 2008 Apr 18;9(4):578–605. doi: 10.3390/ijms9040578

Table 5.

Calculation of the daily intake of OTA in patients suffering from BEN in endemic of BEN areas and in healthy patients from nonendemic areas in Bulgaria [1, 124].

Areas Year Positive samples (%) Cp (ng/ml) per day) Reference K0 (ng/kg b. w.
endemic of BEN 1986 23.3 20.0 [132] 26.8
1989 29.2 27.2 36.4
1990 25.0 25.0 34.2
nonendemic 1986 7.7 10.0 [132] 13.4
1989 6.6 0 > 2 0 > 2.7
1990 6.6 8.0 10.7

Cp - average concentration of OTA in plasma

K0 - average daily intake